Hello Folks! This mornings post is a friendly reminder that DST (Spring forward) is kicking in this weekend (March 8th at 2:00AM – US). Hopefully by now you are prepared and have the latest DST cumulative patch installed: December 2014 cumulative time...

Hello AskPerf Readers! Dhiraj here from the Windows Performance team to talk about deploying RDS using Windows PowerShell on Windows Server 2012 R2. As you know, PowerShell has been around for quite a few years now (November 2006 to be exact). Over the...

Hello AskPerf! My name is Matt Graham and today I want to address some questions surrounding the setup of highly available licensing servers. Anyone setting up a RDS infrastructure wants to ensure that it will keep working if a license server goes down...

Hello Folks. Wanted to send out a quick note on an emerging issue we are seeing in Support after installing MS15-010 . If your fonts/text are distorted on the following Operating Systems…
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Windows...

Good morning/afternoon/evening AskPerf! Blake here with a post I’ve been meaning to write/publish for a year or so now. Here in on the Performance Team, we support a wide range of technologies, with Task Scheduler being one of them. More often than not...

Hello AskPerf! Today’s post is a quick one that points to one of Bob' Golding's Windows Troubleshooting videos. He talks about how to download/run Dumpchk.exe on your dump files to check for corruption. Check it out below: DumpCheck...

Hello Askperf! Anshuman here again with an interesting issue I worked a few weeks ago. The following pop-up appeared on my workstation intermittently: I then realized that I had the Send To OneNote printer set as my default printer. The next time this...

Hello Askperf! My name is Tingu, and today I’m going to talk about an interesting print migration issue I had a few weeks ago.
We had a case where an application server was running on Windows 2003, where more than 400 print queues were created...

Hello folks, One of our Engineering PMs that supports our Diagnostics and Automated solutions published a blog regarding Bing and how you can use it to answer your technical questions and provide automated solutions. Here is a brief overview: Bing...

Hello AskPerf! Pushing up a blog today to discuss the registry bloat issue that has been recently addressed in the following KB: Computer cannot be restarted if the registry hives are larger than 2 GB Symptom You have a computer that is running the x64...

Hello AskPerf! Sanket here from the Windows Platforms team here to discuss an issue with Remote Desktop Services where RDP does not work when you try to connect from a remote machine. With that, let’s get started! I’m sure most of you have come across...

Good morning AskPerf! It’s been a while since our last post, and we apologize for that. We’ve been quite busy here on the Support side knocking out customer issues… Any who, we have some upcoming blogs in the oven that need a little more time...

Scenario
Windows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is experiencing high handle count
Your first thing to do is check the Application Event log for following event:
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMI
Event...

Scenario
Windows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is consuming high amounts of CPU.
In the directions below, you may have already broken out WMI Service to troubleshoot your issue. By default, WMI runs...

Scenario
Windows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is consuming high amounts of memory.
There are many reasons why WMI might experience high memory consumptions. This can occur in the WMI (Windows Management...

Scenario
Windows Management Instrumentation fails due to receiving an event or error concerning missing or failure to load WMI Provider, or Invalid WMI class, or WMI Invalid Namespace .
Below are some common errors indicating issues with a WMI Provider...

Scenario
Windows Management Instrumentation failing due to repository being corrupted
The WMI Repository (%windir%System32\Wbem\Repository ) is the database that stores meta-information and definitions for WMI classes; in some cases the repository...

Hello AskPerf! My name is Jeffrey Worline and I wanted to let you know that I will be writing several troubleshooting WMI blog posts over the next few days. These will not be your typical Blog post, but more around the KB/Technet format.
There has...

Hello AskPerf! My name is Matt Graham and I will be writing a high level overview of the capabilities of Windows Performance Monitor. The intention of this blog post is to introduce new users to this powerful, and often underutilized, tool. So rather...

Hello AskPerf! Kiran Kadaba here to talk about configuring Listener Certificates. When we have the Remote Desktop Session Host role installed on a server, or have the server as part of an RDS collection/deployment, it’s quite easy to configure certificate...

Hello AskPerf Readers! Henry Chen here from the Devices & Deployment team. Today, I would like to spend some time highlighting some of the user experience changes in the shell for Windows 8.1 Update. Windows 8.1 Update introduces numerous enhancements...

Good morning AskPerf! Anshuman here with a quick post on timestamp differences in Windows Explorer when accessing FTP sites. Scenario On Windows 7(SP1), Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, you access a folder using ftp by opening an explorer window and typing...

Hello AskPerf! I’m sure you already know this, but if you don’t, XP Support Ends on April 8th, 2014. That is 21 days from this post. Below are a couple of links that will give you more information on moving forward: Support for Windows XP and Office 2003...

Good morning AskPerf! This is a quick blog to inform you that you no longer have to contact Microsoft Technical Support to obtain the Dynamic Cache Service for Windows Server 2008 R2. It is now freely available to download from the following link: Microsoft...